Above: Located on the edge of a nature preserve a half-hour drive from Stockholm, the Häringe estate's sprawling gardens date to the 1930s. A succession of wealthy and eccentric industrialists-turned-collectors owned the property, and each put his idiosyncratic mark on it.

Above: It was banker Torsten Kreuger who built the gardens in the early 1930s.

Above: After Kreuger went bankrupt in the 1930s, Häringe Slott was bought by Axel Wenner-Gren, a vacuum-cleaner magnate who owned Electrolux.

Above: Summer wildflowers and fruit from the property.

Above: An inveterate collector, Wenner-Gren entertained celebrity acquaintances such as Greta Garbo and Josephine Baker at his palace.

Above: Disconsolate at his failure to broker diplomatic relations between Germany and England that would have prevented World War II, Wenner-Gren and his wife left Sweden on their yacht. They returned to Häringe Slott only after the war ended.

Above: After Wenner-Gren's death in 1961, the castle's furnishings were sold off. The property's subsequent owner, Olle Hartwig, painstakingly reacquired the collection.

Above: The castle is set by the sea in the Häringe-Hammersta Nature Reserve, which has farmlands and pastures.

Above: The landscape is varied, including a pond and coastal bays.

Above: Twilight at the end of the dock.

Above: Wenner-Gren and his wife, Marguerite, are buried near the castle's East Wing.